*** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and links

Britain to Encourage Both Nuclear and Wind PowerLONDON — The British government on Friday announced far-reaching changes in energy regulation designed to encourage development of renewable energy and nuclear power while ensuring the country could meet its electricity needs.

The changes will gradually quadruple the charges levied on consumers and businesses to help support electricity generation from low-carbon sources, to a total of about £9.8 billion, or $15.7 billion, in the 2020-21 fiscal year from £2.35 billion currently.

The government forecasts that the new price supports will add 7 percent, or about £95 a year, to the average household electricity bill. Currently, such charges add 2 percent to energy bills, or £20 a year. [link to www.nytimes.com] .

A chlorine leak was discovered in an area near the Unit 2 cooling towers. The leak has been isolated; the amount leaked is under investigation. Sodium bisulfite has been used to neutralize the [leaked] chlorine. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division and U.S. Coast Guard have been notified. [link to www.nucpros.com] .

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

I don't like the data drop thread situation where no one comments or anything here. So Citizen let's start posting outside of the thread. I thought everyone interested in the radiation thing would come to this thread, and maybe they are here but data dumping is boring and you should post this article yourself. This is something and no one is going to notice it here, if they do they say nothing.

:) I didn't get to Ft. Calhoun, obstacles are a good sign I have been told. My brother has lymphoma stage 4 and I am taking care of him full time. My first break in weeks during which I was going to make the video ended up with me going to the emergency room and he has been admitted to the hospital again.

kudous, thankyou for thoughts, but that is my site.. we got it going very early after me and Mochizuki, noticed they took down sites early in the piece.. so in an attempt to keep the news out there we (exclusively).... nhave a few sites that mirror all that is documented..... I also have personal corresponds, with Helen and others....... Caldicot < towhit.... and the rest......

ty for reposting- however famous waterbug wants to be (which he doesn't).. the truth is more alive in this thread than anywhere else..... i have a book being written which devotes an entire chapter.....

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

I don't like the data drop thread situation where no one comments or anything here. So Citizen let's start posting outside of the thread. I thought everyone interested in the radiation thing would come to this thread, and maybe they are here but data dumping is boring and you should post this article yourself. This is something and no one is going to notice it here, if they do they say nothing.

:) I didn't get to Ft. Calhoun, obstacles are a good sign I have been told. My brother has lymphoma stage 4 and I am taking care of him full time. My first break in weeks during which I was going to make the video ended up with me going to the emergency room and he has been admitted to the hospital again.

kudous, thankyou for thoughts, but that is my site.. we got it going very early after me and Mochizuki, noticed they took down sites early in the piece.. so in an attempt to keep the news out there we (exclusively).... nhave a few sites that mirror all that is documented..... I also have personal corresponds, with Helen and others....... Caldicot < towhit.... and the rest......

ty for reposting- however famous waterbug wants to be (which he doesn't).. the truth is mopre alive in this thread than anywhere else..... i have a book being written which devotes an entire chapter.....

Quoting: Citizenperth

Ok, link me your site, in pm if you want. You have to admit this thread kinda serves a news purpose but there is no personal touch.

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

The thread name is "*** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and links"...

I think this data dumping gives a good overview what's happening in the nuclear business worldwide... hope you dont mind... there's an enormous amount of information in this thread... to discuss a certain item I think your idea of starting a new thread is the way to go...

Anti-nuclear minority parties in Japan are seeking to unite for next month's Lower House election. Some of them are looking to an anti-nuclear governor to head a new party that would assemble all like-minded forces.

Three parties in the opposition bloc, including People's Life First, are considering seeking the cooperation of Governor Yukiko Kada from Shiga Prefecture. [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] .

A utility in western Japan is asking the government to approve an average 11.88 percent price increase in household electricity. It is citing the need to cover higher costs stemming from the suspension of nuclear power plants. [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] .

A United Nations human rights expert said Monday that Japan should expand the scope of a health survey it is conducting following the nuclear crisis last year.

U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Anand Grover said the government has only surveyed people who were resident in or visited Fukushima Prefecture when the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant was triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. "I would urge the government to expand the health survey to all radiation-affected zones," he said. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] .

A senior official of Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday at a U.S. panel meeting in Tokyo that the company failed to take sufficient safety measures before last year's disaster at its Fukushima nuclear complex, fearing that taking such measures could "fuel the anxiety" of local people.

On the first day of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' committee meeting through Wednesday, Akira Kawano, general manager of Tokyo Electric's Nuclear International Relations and Strategy Group, said the company "was concerned that safety measures, if taken, might rather fuel the anxiety of local people."

Kawano also said the nuclear crisis was caused because multiple protection measures at the complex were "not enough to fend off the tsunami that was beyond earlier assumptions." [link to english.kyodonews.jp] .

U.S. Commission: all countries, including Russia, must observe nuclear energy safety guidelines

International organizations' nuclear energy safety guidelines provide minimum standards that must be observed by all countries, including Russia, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) expert Eduardo Sastre said in an interview with Nozare.lv.

Sastre was asked for advice on how to be sure that neighboring countries, which have lower standards, for example, in environmental protection, construct safe nuclear power plants, writes LETA. [link to www.baltic-course.com] .

Hanford crews, with the help of bacteria, are attacking an 80,000-gallon spill of diesel fuel near the Columbia River at Hanford.

It's part of the final phase of environmental cleanup at Hanford's N Reactor, where 900,000 tons of contaminated soil and building rubble have been hauled to a lined landfill in central Hanford. [link to www.tri-cityherald.com] .

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

GLP's best Fuku thread: Thread: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and linkstwitter: #citizenperth“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I would use the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”- Albert Einstein

Political groups against nuclear energy, such as one headed by powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa, agreed Tuesday to join together to become a major "third force," a week before the start of official campaigning for the Dec. 16 general election.

As Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada, 62, who has called for the gradual phasing out of nuclear power, announced a plan to establish a new political party with legislators and others who support her policies, the People's Life First party, led by Ozawa, and other small parties decided to link up with the new party as requested by her. [link to english.kyodonews.jp] .

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. is investigating how an alarm was wrongly programmed and went off yesterday at a reactor under maintenance in the Uljin nuclear plant.

The safety alarm at a pressurizer in reactor No. 6 rang at around 1 a.m. yesterday, the Seoul-based company said in an e- mailed response to Bloomberg. The alarm was caused by a wrongly programmed alert ceiling, rather than mechanical or human operational failure, it said. [link to www.bloomberg.com] .

State regulators on Monday approved $151 million in advance nuclear costs for Florida Power & Light Co., the full amount the utility requested.The unanimous vote means that a customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt hours a month will be charged $1.65 a month for the advance costs beginning in January and lasting for 12 months. This year the same customer is paying $2.20 a month. [link to www.palmbeachpost.com] .

BRITAIN has awarded its first new nuclear power plant site licence for 25 years to French energy giant EDF, which is looking to build a new station in southwest England.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation on Monday granted the licence to NNB Generation Company, a subsidiary of the French utility's British arm EDF Energy, which wants to build a new plant at Hinkley Point on the Somerset coast.

NNB GenCo is planning to build two European pressurised water reactors (EPRs) at Hinkley Point. The ONR is working with the Environment Agency government body to assess the reactor's generic design. [link to www.nucpros.com] .

Entergy Corp. (ETR) replaced a damaged transformer at the 852-megawatt Fitzpatrick 1 reactor in New York after a failure that caused a fire and shut down the plant Nov. 11.

The reactor connected to the grid yesterday and operated at 38 percent of power early today after crews installed a spare transformer that was on site, said Tammy Holden, a company spokeswoman. [link to www.businessweek.com] .

Japan's nuclear regulatory body is set to question executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company about its policy to ensure safety at its nuclear plants.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority, or NRA, held a meeting on Wednesday and discussed a recent series of problems at nuclear plants operated by TEPCO.

At the No. 5 reactor of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata Prefecture, the utility found warping at 18 locations in tubes that send water through fuel assemblies in a spend fuel pool. [link to www3.nhk.or.jp] .

TOKYO — A group of American scientists is meeting in Tokyo this week to study last year’s Fukushima nuclear accident in hopes of finding lessons to improve the safety of U.S. atomic power reactors.

Norman Neureiter, head of the 22-member committee of the National Academy of Sciences, said the tsunami-spawned disaster at Fukushima nuclear power plant and its continuing impact have caused widespread concerns about the safety of nuclear energy. [link to www.japantoday.com] .